ASTM D6061-01(2012)e1
Standard Practice for Evaluating the Performance of Respirable Aerosol Samplers
- Standard No.
- ASTM D6061-01(2012)e1
- Release Date
- 2001
- Published By
- American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
- Status
- Replace By
- ASTM D6061-01(2018)e1
- Latest
- ASTM D6061-01(2018)e1
- Scope
This practice is significant for determining performance relative to ideal sampling conventions. The purposes are multifold:
The conventions have a recognized tie to health effects and can easily be adjusted to accommodate new findings.
Performance criteria permit instrument designers to seek practical sampler improvements.
Performance criteria promote continued experimental testing of the samplers in use with the result that the significant variables (such as wind speed, particle charge, etc.) affecting sampler operation become understood.
One specific use of the performance tests is in determining the efficacy of a given candidate sampler for application in regulatory sampling. The accuracy of the candidate sampler is measured in accordance with the evaluation tests given here. A sampler may then be adopted for a specific application if the accuracy is better than a specific value.
5.2.1 Discussion151;In some instances, a sampler so selected for use in compliance determinations is specified within an exposure standard. This is done so as to eliminate differences among similar samplers. Sampler specification then replaces the respirable sampling convention, eliminating bias (3.2.10), which then does not appear in the uncertainty budget.
Although the criteria are presented in terms of accepted sampling conventions geared mainly to compliance sampling, other applications exist as well. For example, suppose that a specific aerosol diameter-dependent health effect is under investigation. Then for the purpose of an epidemiological study an aerosol sampler that reflects the diameter dependence of interest is required. Sampler accuracy may then be determined relative to a modified sampling convention.
1.1 This practice covers the evaluation of the performance of personal samplers of non-fibrous respirable aerosol. The samplers are assessed relative to a specific respirable sampling convention. The convention is one of several that identify specific particle size fractions for assessing health effects of airborne particles. When a health effects assessment has been based on a specific convention it is appropriate to use that same convention for setting permissible exposure limits in the workplace and ambient environment and for monitoring compliance. The conventions, which define inhalable, thoracic, and respirable aerosol sampler ideals, have now been adopted by the International Standards Organization (ISO 7708), the Comit?/span> Europ?/span>en de Normalisation (CEN Standard EN 481), and the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH, Ref (1)), developed (2) in part from health-effects studies reviewed in Ref (3) and in part as a compromise between definitions proposed in Refs (3,4).
1.2 This practice is complementary to Test Method D4532, which specifies a particular instrument, the 10-mm cyclone. The sampler evaluation procedures presented in this practice have been applied in the testing of the 10-mm cyclone as well as the Higgins-Dewell cyclone. , Details on the evaluation have been published (5-7) and can be incorporated into revisions of Test Method D4532.
1.3 A central aim of this practice is to provide information required for characterizing the uncertainty of concentration estimates from samples taken by candidate samplers. For this purpose, sampling accuracy data from the performance tests given here can be combined with information as to analytical and sampling pump uncertainty obtained ......
ASTM D6061-01(2012)e1 Referenced Document
- ASTM D1356 Standard Terminology Relating to Sampling and Analysis of Atmospheres*， 2024-04-19 Update
- ASTM D4532 Standard Test Method for Respirable Dust in Workplace Atmospheres
- ASTM D6062 Standard Guide for Personal Samplers of Health-Related Aerosol Fractions
- ASTM D6552 Standard Practice for Controlling and Characterizing Errors in Weighing Collected Aerosols
- ISO 7708 Air quality - Particle size fraction definitions for health-related sampling
ASTM D6061-01(2012)e1 history
- 2018 ASTM D6061-01(2018)e1 Standard Practice for Evaluating the Performance of Respirable Aerosol Samplers
- 2001 ASTM D6061-01(2012)e1 Standard Practice for Evaluating the Performance of Respirable Aerosol Samplers
- 2001 ASTM D6061-01(2007)e1 Standard Practice for Evaluating the Performance of Respirable Aerosol Samplers
- 2001 ASTM D6061-01 Standard Practice for Evaluating the Performance of Respirable Aerosol Samplers
- 1996 ASTM D6061-96 Standard Practice for Evaluating the Performance of Respirable Aerosol Samplers
